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LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was a constant in American television for more than a decade: Viewers could turn on their TVs and find Howard Cunningham in his armchair, reading the newspaper and providing a fatherly voice of reason to young Richie Cunningham and his friends on “Happy Days.” Tom Bosley made the role famous during ... - PAGE B6
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The military is accepting openly gay recruits for the first time in the nation’s history, even as it tries in the courts to slow the movement to abolish its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. At least two service members discharged for being gay began the process to re-enlist after the Pentagon’s Tuesday announce-
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ment. A federal judge in California who overturned the 17year policy last week rejected the government’s latest effort on Tuesday to halt her order telling the military to stop enforcing the law. Government lawyers will likely appeal. With the recruiting announcement, the barriers built by an institution
Twenty-nine nations, including Israel, Canada, Germany and Sweden, allow openly gay troops, according to the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay rights group and plaintiff in the lawsuit before Phillips.
long resistant and sometimes hostile to gays had come down. The movement to over-
turn the 1993 Clinton-era law gained speed when President Barack Obama campaigned on its repeal.
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All three of Roswell’s Head Start centers were holding open houses, Tuesday evening. James Duffey and Hobson Farms donated 333 pumpkins for kids and parents to decorate. Here, in Cathy Shannon’s classroom at Center No. 1 on East Hendricks Street, Dezmin Fajardo, 4, and Rosie Ramirez started on their pumpkin, while Leonel Mendoza and Jordan Mendoza, 4, put the finishing touches on theirs.
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ROCKETS SCORE 2 IN WIN
Talk about getting the monkey off your back. For the first time since an August 28 win over Roswell, the Goddard girls soccer team scored a goal as they downed district foe Artesia, 2-1 in double overtime on Tuesday. The Rockets’ first goal came in the 35th minute when Araceli Macias scored on a hustle play. - PAGE B1
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The effort stalled in Congress this fall, and found new life last month when U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips declared it unconstitutional. The Defense Department has said it would comply with Phillips’ order and had frozen any discharge cases. Pentagon spokeswoman
LAS CRUCES (AP) — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has scaled back spending on TV advertising for Rep. Harry Teague, choosing to focus on helping another first-term Democrat, Albuquerque-area Rep. Martin Heinrich. Heinrich, D-N.M., is in a tight race against Republican businessman Jon Barela, while Teague, DN.M., is facing a close contest for the southern New Mexico seat against former three-term Republican Rep. Steve Pearce. DCCC chair man Chris Van Hollen says the DCCC made its decision for New Mexico because “Harry Teague is in a strong position.” Pearce campaign spokesman Jason Heffley says the DCCC is pulling out after realizing voters won’t support Teague.
Tuesday, day two of the State of New Mexico v. Aaron Daugherty concentrated on forensics and forensic pathology. 25, is Daugherty, accused of killing Valerie A. York, 25, and Mark A. Koenig, 23, on June 13, 2009. Police were called to the trailer park, 1207 W. Hobbs, space 13, around 2:45 a.m., where they located the bodies of the victims. Both had been shot in the head. The district attorney’s office brought in Dr. Ian Paul, the forensic pathologist from the Office of the Medical Investigator who conducted the autopsies on York and Koenig, to testify for the state.
Character Counts! at the zoo, Tuesday
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A wild pack of students invaded Spring River Park & Zoo, Tuesday morning, trading in their trapper keepers and textbooks for Texas longhorns and turkeys. The annual zoo tour hosted by Character Counts! kicked off National CC! Week in Roswell. More than 400 students from six elementary schools attended the educational guided tour to learn about various zoo animals and the ethical values that the nonprofit character education proMark Wilson Photo gram teaches in schools New Mexico Military Institute Capt. Eric Evertson reads from the Dr. Seuss book Horton across the nation: trustHatches the Egg to 5th-graders from Washington Avenue Elementary School, Tuesday worthiness, respect, morning. responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. Six adult presenters school teacher, asked a retorted. “It’s mindboggling how from the community were group of students at the “Do you stand up for successful this has stationed throughout the Trustworthiness station your beliefs? Are you a become,” Cla Avery, execzoo to teach the kids by the Longhorn Ranch. good friend?” Raftery conutive director of Roswell’s “Yes,” a chorus of 5th- tinued, before reading CC! chapter, said. He about the six pillars of graders from Del Norte aloud Gene Autry’s Cownoted that participation character. boy Code of Conduct. “Are you trustworthy?” Elementary responded. has doubled since 2009. T im Raftery, a retired “Maybe,” one quietly
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Pecos Elementary School 5th-graders make their way through the corn maze at Graves Farm & Garden, Tuesday morning, during a pre-Halloween field trip.
Following years of contemplation over whether to run for public office, James Duffey says now is the time and hopes county residents in District 1 elect him to the Chaves County Commission. The Republican candidate says that working with the public has been the focus of his professional career and that he hopes to carry that into the next stage, all the while bettering Chaves County. “I like working with the public,” he said. “My only concern is to try to make
Chaves County better.” Duf fey spent 33 years working as a county agriculture and 4-H agent. Much of his time was spent at New Mexico State University’s Chaves County Extension Office. He says that he often thought of getting involved with public office. “I know so many people and know so much about the county,” Duffey said. “I’ve always been into service ... for other people.” If elected, Duffey says he plans to carry over his ideals of smaller government and fewer taxes to the commission. Also, he plans to focus his attention on
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